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HISTOIRE de la REVOLUTION FRANCAISE. Par A. THIERS. 10 vols. 12mo. New cheap edit. 21. 2s.

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CONSTANTINOPLE et le BOSPHORE. Par le Comte ANDRIOSSY. 1 vol. 8vo. with a set of plates, fol. 15s.

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GEOMETRIE PERSPECTIVE, avec des Applications à la recherche des Ombres. Par G. H. DUFOUR. 1 vol. 8vo. with plates in 4to. 4s. 6d.

CONCHOLOGY.

In one vol, 8vo., Illustrated with 2300 Figures, price 21. 12s. 6d. in extra boards, or with the Plates accurately Coloured, 51. 5s. the Second Edition, Corrected and Revised, of

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TESTACEOLOGI

CUS, or a Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Lininaan System, with Latin and English Names, References to Authors, and Places where Found. By W. WooD, F.R.S. and F.L.S., Author of "Zoography," "General Conchology," "Illustrations of the Linnæan Genera of Insects," &c.

Published by W. Wood, 428, Strand.

The figures contained in this volume are for the most part original, and have been drawn from specimens with the greatest possible attention to accuracy. All shells, even the most minute, that have been noticed as British by Montague, Donovan, Walker, and others, as well as all the foreign species described in the volumes of Martini and Chemnitz, &c., have been introduced.

Also,

A SUPPLEMENT to the above, containing 480 Figures of Shells, for the Price most part not hitherto described.

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CONSIDERATIONS

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HISTOIRE PHILOSOPHIQUE, LITTERAIRE, et ECONOMIQUE, des Plantes de l'Europe. Par POIRET. 5 vols. 8vo. with a set of plates, 31. 12s. 6d.

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The system of Lamarck, as well as that of Linnæus, has been illustrated by adapting his specific names to the figures throughout the work, so that any collection of shells may be arranged scientifically by inspection.

J. M. R. LENZ SCHRIFTEN, MY

Herausgegeben von Tieck.

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